Biography
Perry G. Fine, MD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Pain Research Center
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
Perry G. Fine, MD, is Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. Dr. Fine serves on the faculty in the Pain Research Center, and is an attending physician in the Pain Management Center. He teaches first and second-year medical school courses in social medicine and the fourth-year medical school course in medical ethics.
Dr. Fine completed medical school at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He served an internship at the Community Hospital of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, California, and completed his residency at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City. In addition, he completed a fellowship at the Smythe Pain Clinic of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Fine serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Pain Foundation. Additionally, he serves as the External Strategic Advisor for Capital Hospice in Washington, DC. As a consultant to the Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care, based in Albany, New York, Dr. Fine helps develop educationally supporting, self-sustaining models of pre-hospice palliative care in community settings as an integrative component of disease management and advanced illness coordinated care.
Dr. Fine is widely published in the fields of pain management and end-of-life care, and serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed medical journals. As a medical avocation, he has worked as a team physician for the University of Utah football team for the last 18 years and was a medical officer for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He is the recipient of the 2007 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Distinguished Hospice Physician Award, and the 2008 American Pain Society John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award. In 2008, an endowed lectureship was created in his name at the West Virginia University School of Medicine: the Perry G. Fine, MD Annual Lectureship in Pain and Palliative Medicine.
Faculty Disclosure:
Dr. Fine serves as consultant for Cephalon, King Pharmaceuticals, Neuroadjuvants, and OrthoMcNeil/Pricara. He has received honorarium from Forest and acts as medical expert on behalf of Janssen & Alza.
